Alabama country singer takes 3rd on 'The Voice'

Associated Press

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May 25, 2019 at 9:22 PMMay 25, 2019 at 9:22 PM

MONTGOMERY — Alabama country singer Dexter Roberts has come in third place on Season 16 of NBC's "The Voice."

Roberts competed on celebrity country crooner Blake Shelton's team during the reality series, Al.com reported. The 27-year-old from Fayette was beat out for the top spot by Maelyn Jarmon, a 26-year-old pop singer from Frisco, Texas.

"It's so overwhelming, man," Roberts said during the show. "I come from a small, small town. Things like this don't happen to people like me."

"You're always classy. You always do your job. Literally, like the next George Strait standing up there," Shelton said.

Roberts may be familiar to fans of reality TV. He took seventh place on "American Idol" in 2014, earning a widespread fan base in the process.

As a top-10 contestant on "American Idol," Roberts joined a summer tour before having to leave due to illness. He was bitten by a tick while hunting and contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

On "The Voice" this season he said he thought his career might have been over when his health was failing and his momentum seemed to stall. He regards his time on the show as a blessing, and a surreal one at that.